Survivors of unlawful detention in Nagorno-Karabakh speak out about war crimes

New evidence of torture and inhumane treatment of civilians by Azerbaijani forces emerges. The original version of this article first appeared on Open Democracy Russia, on 12 March 2021. During last autumn’s six-week war between Armenia and Armenian over the ethnic-Armenian majority enclave Nagorno-Karabakh, as Azerbaijani forces took control of areas in and around the region, they rounded up local civilians. Most younger civilians had fled the hostilities. Those remaining, with few exceptio